HT1/17/1

Lease for 60 years (attested copy): [For counterpart see P1/6/30]

18 Jan 1834; copy attested 18 Jan 1842

From: 1833 To: 1842

i) the Reverend James Donne, clerk, Vicar of St. Paul, Bedford Thomas Barnard of Bedford, banker ) Thomas Davies of Bedford, Esquire ) churchwardens ii) James Horsford of Bedford, bricklayer Lease by i) to ii) for 60 years from 11 October last [1833] - messuage or tenement in Well Street in the parish of St. Paul, Bedford with outhouses, yard and garden adjoining, formerly in the occupation of John Lovelidge, since of Thomas Lovelidge, late of John Frohock, and now of ii) [Plan in margin] :N. Well Street :W. house and ground of Thomas Lovelidge :S and E. house and ground of the Bedford Charity Annual rent: £2..10s., and ii) to pay all taxes etc. ii) to pull down the house during the first year of the lease, and to spend at least £350 in building ''one or more good and substantial brick messuage, tenement or dwelling house ... to be covered with the best tiles or slates, and the timber required for building and finishing the same to be of the best oak, deal, and fir timber'' on the site. i) to have right of entry during building work for purpose of inspection etc., and after completion i) or their surveyor to view premises to ascertain that £350 had been fully and properly laid out. ii) to keep premises in repair, and to insure against fire for £350 witness: Alexander Sharman, Solicitor, Bedford signatures: i) and ii) 18 January 1834 copy attested by Edward John Platt and William Weale, Clerks to Messrs. Pearse & Son, Solicitors Bedford copy 18 Jan. 1842

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Donne, James,
Barnard, Thomas,
Davies, Thomas,
Horsford, James,
Lovelidge, John,
Lovelidge, Thomas,
Frohock, John,
Bedford Charity

BUILDINGS & LAND USE, church buildings & land, non-agricultural leases, BEDFORD, clergy, vicar, banker, churchwardens, bricklayer, HOUSING, gardens, Bedford Well Street, Bedford St.Paul's, site layout plans, Bedford Charity, private land use, rentals, demolition, building work, insurance